Known for Acting
Prinsesa Ng City Jail tells the story of Princess (Sofia Pablo), a young girl raised near a prison by her jail guard father. She brings light to the lives of the people around her, especially the convicted criminals. But despite the love and happiness she finds with them, Princess still longs for the mother who abandoned her. The life of Princess changes when she meets a young inmate, Xavier (Allen Ansay), who also has his own familial issues. As their friendship blossoms, Princess teaches Xavier to forgive and forget the past. Meanwhile, Xavier leads her to her long-lost mother.
A secretly gay, “dude, chong, pare, bro” ends up becoming the crowd favorite of an underground wrestling circuit because of his costume and moniker. Can his underground success help him to be loved by his father?
When a pair of newlywed musicians get trapped in a storm on their island honeymoon, they must face difficult truths that could tear their marriage apart.
As she enters a prestigious conservatory, an aspiring singer joins the underdog show choir to try and make it to the nationals. But the journey to the top is steep, and she must go all out with her group to prevent her dream from fizzling out.
Daniel Villareal is trying to escape his tumultuous past. In a tragic event, he assumes the identity of Jacob del Rosario and starts life anew as a doting husband and family man to a homicide detective wife Iris Del Rosario. In a twist of events, his dark past as a suspected serial murderer catches up on him with his secrets unfolding. Detective Iris takes the lead on a case that will make his past catch up with the present, they will both stop at nothing to find out the truth and protect the life that they have built together even if it means going behind each other’s backs in order to do so.
A couple navigates the traditional expectations attached to marriage — that it extends beyond one’s partner, and includes their friends and family, too.
Peter, a deceased Filipino-Chinese businessman, returns as a ghost and is bonded to Romy, a Filipino caretaker of a columbarium. He discovers that his family declared his death a suicide which is most unlikely of him. Not able to recall how he really died, he sets out for the truth with the help of Romy. They do not expect the complexity of what unravels. Set in the heart of Manila's vibrant Chinatown, After Life is a dark drama with Shakespearean complexities of family dysfunction, untold secrets, greed and deceit. It thrusts us into the spicy play of Chinese and Filipino cultures, and their socio-political dynamics. It is a story of an unsettled soul, it is also a poignant tale of two fathers, trying their best to mend what has been broken in their relationships. As it unfolds, they learn to let of the pride that weighs them down in order to protect what truly matters in the end.
A disillusioned and suicidal Rizal, a cross-dressing Bonifacio gripped with paranoia, an ex-Katipunero who joins the US army to save his own neck, and a widow whose sex-for-food errands lead her to become the first ever Makapili. These are the historical mosaics that will form a singular hypothesis as to why we are like this as a people and up to now still reeling from our damaged culture.
A young woman is brought to Baguio by her new stepfather. While she struggles with her new family and surroundings, she finds herself torn between two young men who bring passion into her life.
Fired from her job and evicted from her apartment, Martee (Regine Velasquez) brings herself and her asthmatic son to Zambales for a vacation. In a dilapidated resort, owned by Lance (Piolo Pascual), Martee finds work as a manager whose duties entails plans on how to increase the resort’s clientele. At first, Martee finds difficulty adjusting to the slower provincial lifestyle, but eventually she finds the laid-back pace more favorable.
